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Boxer Adam Braidwood fought back tears in a video statement where he offered condolences to the family of Tim Hague, who died after losing to the former CFL player in a heavyweight boxing match on Friday night. Hague was hospitalized after the one-sided loss via second-round technical knockout. His death was announced Sunday by his […]

EDMONTON — Former UFC fighter Tim Hague died Sunday after being listed in critical condition following a Friday night boxing match. Hague’s sister Jackie Neil said in a statement on behalf of her family that the boxer died on Sunday. The 33-year-old Hague grew up on a farm in Boyle, Alta., and had fought in […]

Gina Carano is a former mixed martial artist who became a promising action star in Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 thriller Haywire. She’s now out on her own (i.e., without Soderbergh) in something called In The Blood, an explosive knee-in-the-groin drama that proves it takes more than a fast right hand to score a knockout.

Georges St-Pierre — popularly known as GSP, which sounds like a particularly punishing kind of sales tax — is a champion fighter of mixed martial arts. This sport, a combination of boxing, kick-boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu and second-degree assault, is a brutal brand of combat in which people are kicked in the head, have their noses smashed with elbows and surrender to submission holds. The losers emerge bruised, cut and sometimes unconscious. The winners look like people who have just completed a tour of a slaughterhouse and got too close.

For most 23 year olds, a holiday in the mountains or at the lake is an ideal getaway from the daily grind of work. From the time Jordan Mein starts his vacations, he’s counting down the time until he can get back on the job.

An arrest has been made in the death of Wyatt Lewis, a Calgary MMA pioneer killed last year on 16th Avenue N.W. Duty inspector Mike Tillotson confirmed a suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday and more information will be released on Thursday at a news conference.

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